Is Image Super-resolution Helpful for Other Vision Tasks?

Understand

Despite the great advances made in the field of image super-resolution (ISR) during the last years, the performance has merely been evaluated perceptually.

• Thus, it is still unclear whether ISR is helpful for other vision tasks.
• In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study and analysis of the usefulness of ISR for other vision applications.
• In particular, six ISR methods are evaluated on four popular vision tasks, namely edge detection, semantic image segmentation, digit recognition, and scene recognition.